DC Photo Map

Fischer has a set of similar maps from various cities around the world. Fischer’s methodology takes data from the images and the user accounts to determine the location of the photo (via geotagging), as well as the time and date and the type of user (tourist, local, or unknown). Tourist photos are in red, locals in blue, and unknown data in yellow. Each dot represents a photo. Photos taken in succession by the same user within 10 minutes of each other are connected by a line.

Fischer also has maps of cities that do not discern between tourists and locals.

2 comments to DC Photo Map

[…] While adding some buffer around the White House, the larger point is that downtown already has most of the city’s tall buildings. Furthermore, if we’re talking about adding a modest increase in heights allowed in DC (something along the lines of allowing buildings to be twice as tall as the streets they front on, rather than the current limit of street width + 20 feet), then views like this and this within the monumental core will look exactly the same in all of the tourist photos. […]

How to Rebuild Architecture - NYTimes.com2014/12/17Architects are "attempting to sell the public buildings and neighborhoods they don’t particularly want, in a language they don’t understand. In the meantime, we’ve ceded the rest of the built environment to hacks, with sprawl and dreck rolling out all around us."